Comments on: MacBook Pro Battery Life

By: Notebook Power Supply

Notebook Power Supply — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:34:41 +0000

I’ve been looking at different power supply units for my Acer model; it’s strange because the model it says my notebook requires is different from the model that came with the notebook, maybe I should get in contact with Acer to solve this issue. Anyway, I found your blog post very insightful.

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:19:06 +0000

7 Hours is Misleading Battery Life for MacBook Pro. They exaggerate and over-claim its battery performance

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:15:53 +0000

This is not possible. Even Wall Street’s Mossberg suggested in a MacBook Pro review that the battery does not live up to its 7 hours promise. It barely reaches 4 hours, even shut down most of the windows and dim the light. 8 Hours, you must be using it with a Cord when you go to school.

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:08:06 +0000

Agree. Apple really misleads the customers. On its website, it claims to be 7 hours long. I upgraded to MacBook Pro for this reason . Its battery not too impressive, only 3 to 3.5 hours long.

By: Carlton8429

Carlton8429 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:51:54 +0000

My request for new MacBook Pro batery was rejected by Apple today. Battery 22 months old, lasts 12-20mins before stopping without warning. Holds 1692mAh after 297 cycles (so much for 80% of original charge after 300 cycles!). Extremely poor considering my friend with 4 year old clapped out Dell still gets over an hour from his battery

Apple said battery is a consumable item and worn out, not covered by their 2year extended warranty on Sony batteries, despite fitting their criteria of a faulty battery. It was purchased 27 March 2007, in the timeframe of the recall.

I have spent over $10,000 on Apple products in last 5yrs including imac 24″,imac 17″, MacbookPro 15″, and 2 mac mini’s, not to mention Airport expresses and extremes, and software upgrades.

Extremely angry at Apple stance, poor handling of issue despite fitting all criteria on their service website. All goodwill destroyed, I won’t ever sing their praise again, all for the cost of a minor part. Right now, they do suck!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:03:05 +0000

Needbattery.com has these batteries and they have the cheapest prices on the internet. http://www.needbattery.com/Laptops/Apple.html

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:09:35 +0000

The reason that people have hostility towards Apple on this point is because while Apple makes superb machines, they have a notorious record of being incredibly obtuse when it comes to disk space and battery time. It took them years to realize that one needs more than a minimal pittance of a hard drive on their machines, and if I'm buying a "pro" machine, I expect "pro" performance, especially when it comes to the battery time on a laptop. I've never managed to get more than 1.5 hours out of any Apple laptop, and I've owned them since 1993. Will I buy another one? Yes. But not without grilling the hell out of the salesperson on this question of battery life.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:40:11 +0000

hi,
i have a macbook pro 1.83GhZ, 1.5 Gig Ram
ans i have to say that the battery is a big problem.
I did this Battery Exchange Programm, so I have the good one in my macbook pro. But now after six month i can´t use my computer more than an hour without the power supply. I don´t know if my computer has a specific problem but it´s not a Laptop anymore it´s a desktop and a expensive one (i payd for it 3000 dollars). I had a G4 Ibook for 2 years and he was able to make 4 hours without problems. I love Macs but sorry the MacBook Pro is a joke!!! Kind Regards

By: Susanna

Susanna — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:52:14 +0000

I just have a quick question about my battery, since I’m not sure whether I’ve accidentally ruined it or not. The thing is, my Macbook Pro just shuts down when the battery gets to a certain point. Like the first time it happened, it was around 20%, but the second time was when it was around 40%. My question is, is it time for me to get a new battery or is the problem something deeper? Thank you so much in advance.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:40:28 +0000

Just traded in my 4 year old G4 titanium powerbook for the new MacBookPro 15.4in 2.2 Intel 2. After one week of use, I can say with confidence that my old computer had better battery life! Just running airport, safari, word, and mail so I can work in the living room, I’m getting only about 2.75-3 hours of battery life. This is a big disappointment since I expected an improvement over the old machine, and I agree with the other posts that it’s unfortunate that apple doesn’t display this info in the specs – might have thought twice about it!

By: tonkers

tonkers — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:16:07 +0000

i have a brand new macbook pro bought may 2007, the battery has never lasted more than 2 hours and at one point, when i was running everything and heavy graphics, the battery only lasted 30 min!!!. we realy should get at least 3 hours no matter what!!! ive been using macs now for 10 years and i must admit i do not like the way they look and feel now they are pentium.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:41:49 +0000

I’m barely getting an hour out of brand new MacBook Pro, 15″ 2.33GHz, /core 2 Duo. I’m wondering if it is in fact defective? I think I will go back to the store and demand a new one.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:53:06 +0000

I have an Intel MacBook Pro, 15″ 2.33GHz, Core 2 Duo. After a full charge, I will usually get about 3.5 to 4 hours of battery life, assuming normal operation.

But of course the more your computer does, the more energy it takes and there are many ways to adjust your laptop’s performance to get more life out of the battery. For example, turning the display brightness almost all the way down can give you about an extra 30 minutes. Or you can get an extra minutes switching the display from black on while to white on black (this is a feature in the Universal Access System Preferences). If you don’t need Airport, turn it off; that saves still more energy. Turn the speakers off, turn the keyboard backlighting off, etc.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:15:49 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro – got it about a month ago. When I first bought it, the battery was lasting close to four hours. Considering I was lucky to get 90 minutes out of my old laptop battery, this was a dream come true! In the last month though, the performance has started to decrease and today – only three hours. I’m only running an internet browser and iTunes – and occasionally a couple other apps, but nothing that would grind anything to a halt. I’m hoping this isn’t the beginning of the end – or that I’ll need to just suck it up and buy another power cord.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:56:43 +0000

The folks at http://www.batterygeek.net have several brand new portable power solutions for all the new MacBook 13″ and MacBook Pro laptops.

In order for thier laptop battery solution to work however you must request from them the custom MacBook connector cable and tip at the time of your order.

The compatible BatteryGeek external laptop batteries which are compatible can power the new MacBooks up to 6 hours per charge and are as follows:

BG 15-21-118
BG 15-21-130
Portable Power Station 130Wh
Portable Power Station 140Wh (newest model recommended for the maximum run time per charge)

Here are a couple of product reviews on the new BatteryGeek Portable Power Stations:

Providing my Sony UX-180p over 20 hours of battery life!
-by David Ciccone from Mobility Today
http://mobilitytoday.com/articles/portable_power_station.html

Get powered up on the go with the Portable Power Station
-by Matthew Miller from ZDNet’s The Mobile Gadgeteer
http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=30

By: Pace

Pace — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:17:48 +0000

An UPS is likely to be used in areas where the power supply is interrupted frequently (such as third world countries and some rural areas in first world countries). For valuable information on why you should protect you equipment with an UPS: http://www.batterybackupguide.com/apc-battery-backup.htm